空中花园

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history • Modern historians argue that
• 现代历史学家争论说：当亚力 when Alexander[8] 's soldiers 山大的士兵们到达了富饶的美 reached the fertile land of 索不达米亚地区并看到了巴比 伦时，他们深为（眼前的美景） Mesopotamia and saw Babylon, 所震撼。当他们后来回到崎岖 they were impressed.When they 不平的家乡时，带回了有关美 later returned to their rugged 索不达米亚的令人惊叹的花园 和椰子树……、有关尼布甲尼 homeland, they had stories to 撒的宫殿……以及有关巴别塔 tell about the amazing gardens 和金字型神塔的各种故事。是 and palm trees at 诗人和古代历史学家的想象力 把这所有的元素混合在一起制 Mesopotamia...About the palace 造出了世界奇观之一。 of Nebuchadnezzar... About the • Tower of Babel[9] and the ziggurats.And it was the imagination of poets and ancient historians that blended all these elements together to produce one of the World Wonders.
Hanging Garden 空中花园
• Fruits and flowers... Waterfalls... Gardens hanging from the palace terraces... Exotic animals...This is the picture of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in most people's minds.It may be surprising to know that they might have never existed except in the minds of Greek poets and historians! • 水果与鲜花……、瀑 布……、花园高悬在 宫殿的阳台上……、 奇异的动物……，这 是大多数人想象中的 巴比伦空中花园。让 人吃惊的是空中花园 除了在希腊的诗人和 历史学家的头脑中出 现过外，可能从来就 没有存在过。
• 虽然对花园最详尽的记述是出 自Berossus 和 Diodorus Siculus等希 腊历史学家笔下, 但巴比伦的历 史记录却对此事只字未提。尽 管在尼布甲尼撒时期存留下的 各种书写板上发现了对他的宫 殿、巴比伦城以及巴比伦的城 墙的种种描述，但这些书写板 上却没有一处提到过空中花园。 甚至那些对空中花园进行过详 细描述的历史学家们也从没有 亲眼目睹过它们。
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history
• It wasn't until the twentieth century that some of the mysteries surrounding the Hanging Gardens were revealed.Archaeologists are still struggling to gather enough evidence before reaching the final conclusions about the location of the Gardens, their irrigation system, and their true appearance. • 直到二十世纪，围绕着空 中花园的一些不解之迷才 被揭示出来。在得到关于 花园的地理位置、灌溉系 统，和真正面目的最终结 论之前，考古学家们仍在 努力地收集足够的证据。 •
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• On the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq.
位于幼发拉底河的 东岸，距伊拉克的首都 巴格达南约50公里。
history
• The Babylonian kingdom • 古巴比伦王国在著名的国王汉 谟拉比（公元前1792~1750）的 flourished under the rule of the 统治下曾经繁荣一时。但是直 famous King, Hammurabi[2] 到新巴比伦王朝，美索不达米 (1792-1750 BC[3]).It was not 亚文明才达到了它的鼎盛时期。 until[4] the reign of the Neo人们相信传说中的空中花园是 Babylonian dynasty that the 由尼布甲尼撒二世（公元前604 年~562年）建造的。据传，尼 Mesopotamian [5] civilization 布甲尼撒为了取悦于其在米底 reached its ultimate 亚长大并对山景怀有深厚感情 glory.Nebuchadnezzar II[6] 的王后或者是妃子而建造了空 (604-562 BC) is credited for 中花园。 building the legendary Hanging Gardens.It is said that the Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his wife or concubine who had been "brought up in Media[7] and had a passion for mountain surroundings".
Hanging Garden 空中花园
• The approach to the Garden sloped like a hillside and the several parts of the structure rose from one another tier on tier...On all this, the earth had been piled...and was thickly planted with trees of every kind that, by their great size and other charm, gave pleasure to the beholder...The water machines(raised) the water in great abundance from the river, although no one outside could see it. ——Diodorus Siculus • 通往花园的道路象山坡一 样倾斜着，建筑物的几个 部分一层一层地向上交错 排列着……泥土在这些上 面堆积着……并且浓密地 种植着各种各样的树木， 它们以其巨大的身躯和其 他一些魅力，令观赏者赏 心悦目……抽水的机器把 大量的水从河中（提升到） 上面，尽管没有人从外面 能看到它。 ——Diodorus Siculus
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Today I will tell you something about a Garden, which is full of mystery.
Hanging Garden 空中花园
• 空中花园（古希腊文:οἱ [σῆς Σεμιράμιδος] Κῆποι Κρεμαςσοὶ Βαβτλώνιοι） 是古代世界七大奇迹之一，又称悬园。在 前6世纪由新巴比伦（Babylon）王国的尼布 甲尼撒二世（Nebuchadnezzar）在巴比伦城为 其患思乡病的王妃安美依迪丝（Amyitis）修 建的。现已不存。
history
• While the most descriptive accounts of the Gardens come from Greek historians such as Berossus and Diodorus Siculus,Babylonian records stay silent on the matter.Tablets from the time of Nebuchadnezzar do not have a single reference to the Hanging Gardens,although descriptions of his palace, the city of Babylon, and the walls are found.Even the historians who give detailed descriptions of the Hanging Gardens never saw them.